ON CAPE BEETON. 223 



" Good God," lit! tsaid, " we have so mauy things to thauk you for, that time will be 

 infinitely too short to do it ; we must therefore leave it for the work of eternity. Bless 

 our food and fellowship upon this joyful occasion, for the sake of Christ our Lord, Amen." 



Lieutenant-Colonel Meserve, who originated the plan of moving the cannon and 

 heavy material of war by sledges, was engaged in 1*756 in the expedition commanded 

 by Abercromby and Winslow and subsequently took part in the second siege of Louis- 

 bourg in charge of a number of ship carpenters with the rank of Colonel — he being 

 himself a ship carpenter by vocation — and died there from an attack of small pox, which 

 also carried off many others. Colonel Bradstreet made his name famous in after years by 

 his military genius, first developed in the siege of Louisbovirg. He became governor of 

 Newfoundland, and was actively engaged in the campaign for the reduction of French 

 Canada. lu iVôD he took and destroyed Fort Frontenac on Lake Ontario which, says the 

 eminent historian of those times, was " the heaviest blow, next to Loui,sbourg, that the 

 French had yet received," since it meant that "their command of Lake Ontario was gone," 

 and " New France was cut in two and unless the severed parts could speedily reunite, all 

 the posts of the interior would be in imminent jeopardy."' Colonel Richard Gridley, 

 who was the artillery man of the Louisbourg expedition par excellence, distinguished himself 

 at Bunker Hill when in later times, the same undaunted class of men who followed 

 Pepperrell to Cape Breton stood so successfully the shock of their first great encounter 

 with the regular forces of England. Brigadier-General Waldo, who was third in rank at 

 Louisbourg, commanded one of the Maine regiments which formed part of the unsuc- 

 cessful expedition that Massachusetts organized in 1746 and 1*74*7 under the inspiration of 

 Shirley, for the object of laying siege to Crown Point, and died on the eve of the great 

 struggle which ended in the loss of Canada and Louisiana to France. Colonel Titcomb 

 who gave a name to one of the most important works of the besieging forces, served in 

 the Seven Years' War and died a soldier's death in the memorable battle at Lake George, 

 where William Johnson - of New York — a nephew of Admiral Warren and a famous 

 character in colonial history — and Phineas Lyman of Connecticut — a lawyer by profession 

 and a soldier by the necessity of those times — defeated the Baron Dieskau at the head of 

 a large force of French and Indians. 



Nor can we well pass by, in this connection, the name of another officer — Captain 

 Cobb of a Massachusetts regiment — who afterwards took part in the siege of 1Y58, and 

 occupied a somewhat prominent place in the early history of Nova Scotia. Sylvanus 

 Cobb of Plymouth, New England — sometimes incorrectly called Sylvester — was a captain 

 in Gorham's force. It is said that his company was the first that appeared in Boston in 

 response to the call for men to take part in the expedition. He served with distinction 

 throughout the siege and subsequently remained in the public service of Nova Scotia. 

 He commanded a proA'incial armed vessel that was ordered to cruise in 1*747-8 in the Bay 

 of Fundy In 1*758 he conducted Wolfe to make a reconnaissance of Louisbourg. As 

 they neared the shore under a heavy fire — the General and Cobb alone standing on the 

 deck, the latter at the helm — General Wolfe observed that they had approached as near 



' Parkman, " Montcalm and Wolfe," ii. 129. 



- Usher Parsons is incorrect in saying (p. 352) that Sir W. Johnson was appointed " governor of Upper Canada, 

 1796." General Simcoe was lieutenant-governor of that province at that time. See "Cyclopaedia of Am. Biog- 

 raphy" (Art. Johnson) where the inaccuracy is pointed out. 



